I've just spent a great deal of time looking through the ATC board (yes, again ) and I'm seeing tons of images that are just wonderful for ATCs. I dont have a clue where to even find them. I've done google image searches but that's taking too long. Are there books out there that you find them in? Certain websites? There's gotta be a secret that I dont know about!

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I like to use original images from old books, newspapers or magazines whenever I can - I love thrift stores and ebay! A lot of it is just collecting stuff over time and then sorting through a ton of old paper looking for an image I like.

There are tons of books available these days for copyright-free images, though. Collage is popular, apparently! My favorites are by Dover - just search on Amazon - check out Dover books, images, clip art, collage - but your checkbook will be crying if you do because there are soooo many! A lot of them come with CDs, too, so you can pop them into your computer to resize or crop or whatever - I'm too lazy to do that so I usually just copy and then do whatever manipulation I want by hand.hope this helps!

Sometimes it takes a bit of sifting through the samples they send each week, but it's usually worth it.

I've been collecting from dover samples for months, you can get some great stuff. My favorite (right now?) are the children's coloring books, especially the Safety one. It had pictures of a crossing guard and some other silly stuff. Now I just need to find a use for it.

I was wondering where you all get your images for collage atc's. I have wanted to do some vintage nude cards and have found a lot of good images using google search, but I am not sure if I am allowed to use images off the internet on my cards. I know the copyright laws are tricky, and I have read all of the other posts about copyright laws, I was just woderign where you get your images from.

Go to http://store.doverpublications.com/ and sign up for their free sampler. They will mail you images from their various collections. It's a bit of a grab bag as to what you will get but they often send good stuff.